In Ghostly Japan, Names of Incense Used., part 6, sentence 128
“Put somebody’s name on the dog,” said the latter: “then it will be safe.
Who acts: name, somebody · What happens: put, say, be, name · To what, where: name, latter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Names of Incense Used., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, somebody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 somebody | case |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 dog | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 latter | det |
| 13 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 safe | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 safe | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 safe | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 safe | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 safe | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 safe | cop |
| 20 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | infinitive | somebody's name | on the dog | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme on dog=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the latter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | name | then | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | name in a quote | somebody | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «In Ghostly Japan» by Lafcadio Hearn, Project Gutenberg book 8128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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